This blog is produced by members of the Personal Injury department at Pannone LLP, a full service law firm based in Manchester city centre. Our Personal Injury Team is the top-rated team in the North West in Chambers Legal Directory. We undertake the full spectrum of personal injury work, from road traffic accidents to industrial disease cases; from travel and tourism litigation to catastrophic injury claims involving serious head, spinal and amputation injuries; from police assault and child abuse cases to group actions arising from major disasters.
We hope you will find this blog useful, informative and thought provoking. We'd be really interested to hear from you regarding any of the issues we cover, so please take the opportunity to make comments. We would also like to hear your views on the format and content of the blog and if there are subjects you'd like us to cover, then please email us and let us know.
By Kim Harrison in Accidents At Work on Friday, April 30, 2010
Personal injury lawyers can get a lot of stick. We’re called ‘ambulance chasers’ and the people we represent are often vilified in the press for making claims when they have suffered personal injury. Perhaps if the people who write the articles slamming the work we do met the families and... read more
By Kim Harrison in Accidents At Work on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
I thought blog readers might be interested in an article in the Sunday Mercury about a successful accident at work case of mine that has recently settled for £45000. If you or a member of your family has suffered an accident at work, call our litigation solicitors on 0800 0384 384 during... read more
Widespread coverage has been given to the threat to workers posed by high heel shoes as discussed at the TUC Conference on Tuesday. Lorraine Jones of the Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists addressed the conference claiming that some professional dress codes required women to wear high... read more
By Mike Cassidy in Accidents At Work on Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Several newspapers have today reported the case of a mechanic who was yesterday awarded £400,000.00 after slicing his fingers whilst servicing a police car. The Claimant injured the index and middle fingers on his left hand. The injury was caused by a concealed knife which had been... read more
By Kim Harrison in Accidents At Work on Friday, March 20, 2009
I first watched this video, which has been produced by the Asbestos Victims Support Groups’ Forum on Action Mesothelioma Day, back in 2007 in Liverpool Town Hall, in a special meeting for victims of asbestos related disease and their families. It is well worth watching the DVD because it... read more
If you drive in the course of your employment, or require your employees to do so, you need to know about occupational road risk. Employers have a duty of care towards employees who drive in course of their employment, and consideration has to be given to the hours the employee has worked and... read more
By Kim Harrison in Accidents At Work on Wednesday, March 11, 2009
I have read today on the Crains Manchester Business site that: “a concrete additives company had to pay nearly £20,000 after an accident in which an employee lost the fingers and thumb on one hand during a cleaning operation. BASF Construction Chemicals (UK) Ltd of Swinton Hall... read more
